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Big-screen Mohammed epic in the works

DOHA, Qatar (UPI) -- The Qatari media company Al Noor Holdings has announced plans to make a $150 million, English-language movie about the Islamic prophet Mohammed.

Variety said the company discussed the project -- which is in development, but has no cast or director yet -- at the closing of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival Sunday.

The Mohammed film is to be produced by Barrie Osborne, whose credits include "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix" trilogies.

"He was a profound genius who founded a religion whose name in Islam signifies peace and reconciliation," the entertainment industry trade newspaper quoted Osborne as saying. "This is what our film will aspire to do."

Variety noted one of the challenges of the project will be that Islamic tradition forbids the images of the prophet or close members of his family to be reproduced.

It is believed the movie will be about events surrounding Mohammed's life and the impact he had on others, the newspaper said.



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This news arrived on: 11/02/2009
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11-06-2009 12:45
Leslee in Canada wrote:



Ummmm...I am not a fundamentalist Christian, but I have heard many times that those whose knees don't bow and whose tongues don't confess that Jesus Christ is Lord will receive a fate worse than death. The wages of sin is death. If someone offends you, kill him, kill his wife, kill his children, kill his slaves and servants, salt his fields, destroy all his livestock and effectively erase his whole existence from any memory or record.
If Lot and his wife and all who walked with them looked back at Sodom and Gomorrah, they would be turned to salt - oh, gee and look what happened. That naughty naughty naughty wife of Lot. Incest, murder, lust, greed, covetousness, theft, infidelity, adultery, lust (they really liked lust) all committed in the name of God. And determined to be the will of God in the interpretation of Old and New Testament through old men as prophets...the only perfect man was Jesus. These prophets of old were also guilty of the sins committed every day. King David spent years killing everyone in the Middle East to expand his kingdom (not God's kingdom, but his own) only for it to be lost to others in violent wars.

Look to your own sins before condemning all of Islam for the acts of a few. Christianity has had its insane leaders who grab the headlines of the day and then are forgotten. There will be more of them in the future.



11-05-2009 21:44
bobbyr54 wrote:

Muhammed

Muhammed had nothing to do with peace and reconciliation. His intention since founding Islam was to spread his religion around the world and if people would not accept his brand of religion their nation is to conquered and should refuse they are to be killed. Islam is okay if you accept it their way, you will be treated with Kindness, but if you refuse Islam and/or not practice it to their liking you will be killed. While there are people in Judaism and Christianity who killed in the name of religion basically they are religion of peace as Christ himself taught, but Muhammed didn't teach this in their Qu'ran. Islam believes in forced conversion, and if you don't convert you can be tortured or even killed if continue to refuse.



11-04-2009 05:17
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they need to tailor make it very much.
keep the good and dare not put the bad.
or else he will have it....thats what it is all about...

Barrie better be careful, after all you are getting paid for it.



11-03-2009 20:24
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Well, First they will have to kill the cast, then the best boys etc, after all, that is the message of Islam, kill, kill, kill, kill.



11-03-2009 16:57
Dina wrote:



It is indeed that, cult brainwashing.




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